| Main Entry: | red tape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bureaucratic rules |
Synonyms: |
City Hall, authority, bureaucracy, bureaucratic paperwork, city hall, government, management, official forms, official procedures, officialdom, officialism, paper shuffling, powers that be, proper channels, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
Synonyms: |
administration, authority, beadledom, city hall, civil service, directorate, government, management, ministry, officialdom, officials, powers that be, red tape, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
Synonyms: |
care, carrying on, channels, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, intendance, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, wielding |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, advance |
Synonyms: |
advancement, chain, channels, consecution, continuity, development, flow, furtherance, line, manner, march, movement, order, plan, policy, polity, procedure, program, progression, red tape, row, scheme, sequel, sequence, series, string, succession, system, unfolding, way |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
Synonyms: |
academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
Antonyms: |
informality |
| Main Entry: | impediment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, hindrance |
Synonyms: |
Catch-22, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, bottleneck, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, dead weight, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone, obstacle, prohibition, red tape, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, road block, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block, tie, trammel, wall |
Antonyms: |
aid, assistance, facilitation, furtherance, help, support |
| Main Entry: | method |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, procedure |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, approach, arrangement, channels, course, custom, design, disposal, disposition, fashion, form, formula, habit, line, manner, mechanism, method, mode, modus, modus operandi, nuts and bolts, plan, practice, proceeding, process, program, receipt, recipe, red tape, ritual, rote, routine, rubric, rule, rut, schema, scheme, shortcut, style, system, tack, tactics, technic, technique, tenor, the book, usage, way, ways and means, wise, wrinkle |
| Notes: | a method is a way of doing things; a methodology is a set or system of methods |
| Main Entry: | policy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procedure, tactics |
Synonyms: |
action, administration, approach, arrangement, behavior, channels, code, course, custom, design, guideline, line, management, method, order, organization, plan, polity, practice, program, protocol, red tape, rule, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tenet, the book, the numbers, theory |
| Main Entry: | procedure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process, system for accomplishing something |
Synonyms: |
action, agenda, agendum, channels, conduct, course, custom, daily grind, fashion, form, formula, game plan, gimmick, grind, idea, layout, line, maneuver, measure, method, mode, modus operandi, move, nuts and bolts, operation, performance, plan, policy, polity, practice, proceeding, program, red tape, routine, scheme, setup, step, strategy, style, the book, the numbers, transaction |
| Main Entry: | process |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | method; series of actions to achieve result |
Synonyms: |
action, advance, case, channels, course, course of action, development, evolution, fashion, formation, growth, manner, means, measure, mechanism, mode, modus operandi, movement, operation, outgrowth, performance, practice, procedure, proceeding, progress, progression, red tape, routine, rule, stage, step, suit, system, technique, transaction, trial, unfolding, way, wise, working |